2024-11-11T13:51:57-08:00 2023-12-31 770460195 McGilloway Ray Brown & Kaufman 2511 Garden Road Suite A-180 Monterey CA 93940 990EZ 2023-01-01 823886116 THINK BEYOND PLASTIC FOUNDATION THIN 9088271091 27875 BERWICK DRIVE Ste E CARMEL CA 93923 DANIELLA RUSSO President 2024-11-11 true true Patricia M Kaufman CPA P00312047 8313733337 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z X WWW.THINKBEYONDPLASTIC.COM X X 129510 X 124540 4970 0 0 0 0 129510 87500 22115 1695 7916 144003 263229 -133719 361319 227600 361319 227600 361319 227600 361319 227600 Think Beyond Plastic Foundation is a non-profit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to start, support and advance a global wave of innovation for alternatives to conventional, non-fossil fuel based plastic materials. Innovation Challenges: Think Beyond Plastic Foundation conducts innovation challenges to identify solutions to plastic pollution. We developed the Agricultural Plastics Innovation Challenge, in partnership with Driscolls and other industry leaders. In 2023, as a continuation of these challenges, and in collaboration with the Global Entrepreneurship Center, we launched three calls for innovation with focus on new materials and sustainable chemistry, for agriculture, textile and packaging. The winners of these challenges were enrolled in our Innovation Accelerator. 47500 Innovation Accelerator: Accelerating innovation is essential to our mission. In 2023, we launched and trained three cohorts of 20 innovators in collaboration with the Global Entrepreneurship Centre. In collaboration with UCSC, we produced the Blue Pioneers accelerator program, for leaders and innovators who start and grow organizations to overcome ocean conservation challenges around the world. In partnership with Silverstrand Capital we produced the Biodiversity accelerator, to identify innovations in plastic alternatives impacting the ocean. 45000 45000 Investor Forum: In 2023 we hosted our annual investor forum with participation of over 100 investors. This forum explores the role of sustainable chemistry in innovations that achieve the SDGs, the role of frontier capital and blended financing mechanisms to secure the innovation pipeline, and the dynamics of the innovation eco-system. 9000 59660 Innovation Centers: With the United Nations Development Program, we continued to develop the concept for a Regional Innovation Hub in the Philippines focused on eliminating plastic pollution through innovation and entrepreneurship. We have also developed a concept for a Global Innovation Center with focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Center will provide resources, access to support infrastructure and scale-up guidance to hundred of innovators working towards the SDGs in ocean health, agriculture, clean energy and waste. We continued to identify innovation through Southern Europe academic institutions. 43500 Academic Program: An essential part of our activities includes training students in developing a systems view of the plastic pollution problem and incorporating this view in graduate programs at universities. In collaboration with Middlebury Institute at Monterey, we have produced classes and educational programs to facilitate this learning. The class explores the Innovation Ecosystem as a concept for addressing global challenges and uses plastic pollution as a case study. In collaboration with UC Santa Cruz, we have developed programs for graduate students on sustainability. In collaboration with UC San Diego, we have produced training and participation in forums educating students and the public on innovation. We educated on plastic pollution student coalitions at University of Eugene, and University of Washington. 33500 33500 229160 DANIELLA RUSSO President 40.00 7580 GREGORY BAXTER Secretary 40.00 7580 DOROTHY OAKES Director 2.00 0 LINDA JACKSON TREASURER 2.00 0 false false false false false false false 0 0 0 false 0 0 false CA DANIELLA RUSSO 27875 BERWICK DRIVE CARMEL CA 93923 9088271091 false false false false false false false false false false false NONE NONE true X 319896 141529 198290 59542 124706 843963 0 0 319896 141529 198290 59542 124706 843963 576548 267415 4970 4970 0 0 848933 83739 0.31500 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Grants and Similar Amounts Paid In Excess of $5,000.6 | Donee's Name: Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs | Donee's Address: 23564 Calabasas Rd Ste 201 Calabasas CA 91302 | Relationship of Donee: None | Cash Amount Given: $87500 Other Expenses.1002 Office Expenses $1993 Other Expenses.1005 Travel $117983 Other Expenses.1012 Insurance $21708 Other Expenses.1 Tax and License $2319